Burton’s been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. The new york times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future.
. Flynne fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. Her brother burton lives on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit. Her world will be altered utterly, for all its decadence and power, and Wilf’s, irrevocably, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass.
Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad. Flynne and Wilf are about to meet one another.
Agency
Now gibson is back with Agency—a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events. William gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term “cyberspace” and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Verity jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses.
Meanwhile, in a different time line entirely, a century ahead in London, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. Eunice, manifests a face, ” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy.
Realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t. One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral.
His boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions.
Count Zero Sprawl Trilogy Book 2
. Then hosaka corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact.
The Confusion: Volume Two of The Baroque Cycle
Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head or both, she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession. Meanwhile, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, dastardly plots are set in motion .
. Nay, gold. In the year 1689, aka king of the vagabonds, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. And daniel waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.
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Burning Chrome
Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction.
Pattern Recognition Blue Ant Book 1
While in london to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she’s offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the internet—footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide. Still haunted by the memory of her missing father—a cold war security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001—Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge.
From london to tokyo to moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing—and compelling—as the twenty-first century promises to be. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now. Cayce pollard is a new kind of prophet—a world-renowned “coolhunter” who predicts the hottest trends.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters: A Story
. Le guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, and the Pushcart Prize, the Kafka Award, including the National Book Award, Ursula K.
A Closed and Common Orbit Wayfarers Book 2
When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. When she joined the crew of the wayfarer, and love, an intergalactic ship, she got more than she bargained for—and learned to live with, her rag-tag collection of crewmates. A closed and common orbit is the stand-alone sequel to that beloved debut novel, Mass Effect, and is perfect for fans of Firefly, Joss Whedon, and Star Wars.
. Clarke award!winner of the prix julia-verlanger!embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this fun and heart-warming space opera—the sequel to the acclaimed The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence.
Winner of the hugo award for best series!a publishers weekly "Best Books of 2017" pick!Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel!Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C.
Moving Mars
But it is a staggering scientific discovery by martian physicist Charles Franklin—Casseia’s mentor and former lover—that will ultimately reveal the depths of the perfidy of the “Terries, ” forcing an imperiled civilization to alter forever the map of the universe. It’s “as good as hard science fiction gets” The Oregonian.
A galaxy-altering scientific breakthrough on Mars inspires treachery and revolution in this Nebula Award–winning science fiction epic. As she rises up through the political ranks back on mars—with tensions increasing between an oppressive “Mother Earth” and her rebellious “Red Rabbit” children—Casseia soon realizes that an enlightened ideology alone will not save her planet and its people.
As a young college student in 2171, the fifty-third year of the Martian settlement, she experiences a profound political awakening, and her embrace of radical activism only intensifies following a failed diplomatic mission to Earth. The child of one of the oldest, most revered family-corporate units on colonized Mars, Casseia Majumdar has spent her entire life in the tunnels that run beneath the surface of her homeworld.
. A two-time winner of the Nebula Award and a multiple Hugo and Arthur C.
Dhalgren
A labyrinth of a novel, but gives no easy answers, identity, sexuality, it raises questions about race, and art, in a city that reshapes itself with each step you take . So begins Dhalgren, Samuel R. Into this desperate metropolis steps the Kid, to love, his fist wrapped in razor-sharp knives, to write, to wound.
Nebula award finalist: reality unravels in a Midwestern town in this sci-fi epic by the acclaimed author of Babel-17. Delany’s masterwork, which in 1975 opened a new door for what science fiction could mean.
Virtual Light Bridge Trilogy Book 1
And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash. In los angeles, berry rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. Chevette washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses.
. New york times bestseller • 2005: welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Virtual light is written with a sense of craft, a sense of humor and a sense of the ultimate seriousness of the problems it explores. Chicago tribune“in the emerging pop culture of the information age, Gibson is the brightest star.
The san diego Union-Tribune.